I am pulling BLACK MAMBA

DeVicious wrote:


You could hit the reset button it won’t delete stuff but i doubt it’s doing any good.

the.miocrawler folder should be there coz that’s where it is caching the movie sheets. Maybe your pc doesn’t show hidden system folder, you can activate that.

In my theme the snyposis and such doesn’t show prior to other ifno since it is hardcoded into the moviesheet

It would strike me as impossible that my theme and my demo take that amount of time since it is clearly faster here on my device. Our devices are about the same age, same firmware. the one thing we didn’t check (probably the most important) are the photo settings, 2 pages back i posted a screenshot how to setup, please check if you have the same settings there, load my theme, my demo folders (on your local drive on the hub) and test again please

 

I tried the photo setting that you provided and with the Slideshow Transition set to Fade the load time is actually slower…about 10 seconds vs 5 or 6 with it set to Normal.

I’ll try looking for the .miocrawler folder again and delete it to see if that makes any difference and possibly doing a hard reset too. Thanks for looking into this issue DeVicious!

I’ve attached a picture of the modified moviesheet with just the rating and bitrate info and black background. File size is only 42KB which should be small enough for quick loading time. The rest of movie info from the xml file would be inside the rectangular box, and below the box would be 2 rows of 8 movie thumbnails.

i have tuned of media library… and set the photo setting to Normal/Normal… and phew my TV Shows now show up in the right order.

what seems to happen is once you select a movie…

  1. the previous M/S is cleared…

  2. 1 to 1 1/2 seconds  later screen goes solid black,

  3. mirror effect is redrawn.

  4. second later the screen goes solid greyish black

  5. 1/2 to second later the selected M/s is drawn.

it is very visible each of the above steps… which is why is looks slow. 

Steps 2 to 4 i wonder if there is some control at the theme level… it clear the code to do the mirror effect must be running first before the screen goes grey and finally the movie sheet appear.

maybe at this stage it down to the Hubs Photo displaying routine and we’re stuck.

hypertrophy wrote:


tings there, load my theme, my demo folders (on your local drive on the hub) and test again please

 

    • *I’ve attached a picture of the modified moviesheet with just the rating and bitrate info and black background. File size is only 42KB which should be small enough for quick loading time. The rest of movie info from the xml file would be inside the rectangular box, and below the box would be 2 rows of 8 movie thumbnails.

 

The image doesn’t show until it is approved, maybe use a photo upload service,

this will be very interesting to see because you are referring to 16 thumbnails which implies it it is not in gallery view whis is the mode you use to trigger movie sheets. Please upload your image here  http://imageshack.us/ to confirm that we are talking about the same thing here.

i have tuned of media library… and set the photo setting to Normal/Normal… and phew my TV Shows now show up in the right order.

The weirdest things seem to happen on your hub, never in the last 6 months I had my screen go black twice. From all I know if everyone is using the same firmware and fairly indetical hardware there should be fairly the same behavior.

i have tuned of media library… and set the photo setting to Normal/Normal… and phew my TV Shows now show up in the right order.

The photo settings are 1) are not ideal and  2) have nothing to do with the sorting order. You should set the transition to Fade as it takes the same time to load the entire moviesheet but looks smoother. 

DeVicious wrote:



The image doesn’t show until it is approved, maybe use a photo upload service,

this will be very interesting to see because you are referring to 16 thumbnails which implies it it is not in gallery view whis is the mode you use to trigger movie sheets. Please upload your image here  http://imageshack.us/ to confirm that we are talking about the same thing here.

try this url http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/36/indianajonesandthekingdz.jpg

Just to clarify this particular movie sheet did not come from your theme but rather a simplified one I created in trying to increase loading time. Since I’m not at home I don’t have a screen shot with the actual gallery view with all the 16 thumbnails shown. I’ll upload the picture once I get home tonight. But this moviesheet is currently being used in a modified theme in gallery view mode.

hypertrophy wrote:


try this url http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/36/indianajonesandthekingdz.jpg

 

Just to clarify this particular movie sheet did not come from your theme but rather a simplified one I created in trying to increase loading time. Since I’m not at home I don’t have a screen shot with the actual gallery view with all the 16 thumbnails shown. I’ll upload the picture once I get home tonight. But this moviesheet is currently being used in a modified theme in gallery view mode.

okay here is the deal :wink:, you are referring to 16 thumbnails 8 rows per row in 2 rows. My Theme has 7 thumbnails in one row, plus mirror effect. This is probably what you should of mentioned to begin with, on top of that I am trying to help you guys to optimize your entertainment with my theme. If you have a problem with someone elses theme you should deal with the creator not with me and certainly not in this thread. I am absolutely and 1,000,000,000% sure you don’t have to wait 10 seconds with my theme by fading in the backdrop. If that really happens go to the store and replace your device because it would be 400% slower as on my live hub. I am happy to accept 100% more time  which would be 4 seconds max, If the theme you are referring to is keeping all the original code with background graphics for each thumbnail and other stuff I am not surprised it takes that long. I do not take responsibility for other peoples movie sheets or xml code of any kind nor will I further comment on it in this thread.

Here is what we gonna do to determine the issue… you load my theme and my movie sheets from the demo folder. You point your cell phone on your TV and upload it to you tube if the behavior is still sleepy slow I’ll help your to get on the bottom of this, if it works in the desired fashion the issue is resolved.

SPEED TEST - CELL PHONE VIDEO

Devicious,

sorry my fault i didn’t mean to imply the photo setting fixed my TV Sort order… that was part of turning off Library mode.

Nice idea about uploading a video so here is mine… seems it got a little faster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZrwUJAf_k

It not that bad, i am using your theme as-is… 

Anyway thanks and for me i’ll let you get on with something else.

I have given up on using this theme. It’s not the theme that frustrated me it’s the Hub. Because it want’s to display the 1st .jpg file it finds as the cover art I end up with _sheet file as cover art. I can remedy this using MoJo by simply changing the jpg extension to png. (from folder.jpg to folder.png)  but because Mamba uses 2 _sheet files and one of them is a .png I can’t get it working right on my Hub. I wish WD would finally fix this problem. Its a shame because I really liked this theme a lot. :frowning:

Kazgor wrote:

Devicious,

 

sorry my fault i didn’t mean to imply the photo setting fixed my TV Sort order… that was part of turning off Library mode.

 

Nice idea about uploading a video so here is mine… seems it got a little faster.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZrwUJAf_k

 

It not that bad, i am using your theme as-is… 

 

Anyway thanks and for me i’ll let you get on with something else.

 

Hey you made your own sheets and they look great :smiley: 2.8 seconds so that is a lot better as yesterday.

Now those WD people just need to speed up the process and we can make a bbq :slight_smile:

flhthemi wrote:

I have given up on using this theme. It’s not the theme that frustrated me it’s the Hub. Because it want’s to display the 1st .jpg file it finds as the cover art I end up with _sheet file as cover art. I can remedy this using MoJo by simply changing the jpg extension to png. (from folder.jpg to folder.png)  but because Mamba uses 2 _sheet files and one of them is a .png I can’t get it working right on my Hub. I wish WD would finally fix this problem. Its a shame because I really liked this theme a lot. :frowning:

 

It seems you didn’t follow the thread then,

i have posted a couple of times that there was something wrong with the thumbgen screen shots

The Extra Sheet is supposed to refer to “Movie Thumb - Black Mamba by DeVicious”…

change that in the movie sheet settings and you have nothing to worry about.

here is the you tube video showing your theme where it takes about 6 seconds for the background to show up.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpIhr51fG1k&context=C406fddcADvjVQa1PpcFMTwG7bulB0eoazkuU5JGa037tCRw8sI_M=

With the modified moviesheet I was just trying to show that even though the size is small with little info it still takes a long time to load. Wasn’t trying to get you to help me fix my own personal theme/moviesheet…just showing that it happens with other ones too. Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression.

oh btw after just posting that youtube video I did a hard reset with the button on bottom of the hub and it’s faster…down to 4 seconds from 6 seconds.

Hi, DeVicious, thought you my like to see how this wonderful theme looks on the SMP (don’t know why camera icon is showing in middle of screenshot).

Once again thaks

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hypertrophy wrote:

here is the you tube video showing your theme where it takes about 6 seconds for the background to show up.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpIhr51fG1k&context=C406fddcADvjVQa1PpcFMTwG7bulB0eoazkuU5JGa037tCRw8sI_M=

 

With the modified moviesheet I was just trying to show that even though the size is small with little info it still takes a long time to load. Wasn’t trying to get you to help me fix my own personal theme/moviesheet…just showing that it happens with other ones too. Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression.

thank you so much for posting this video, it takes 6 seconds indeed in your video which is way too long but still better as the projected 10 seconds. You said it came down to 4 seconds eventually which is something I can live with for now even when it is still not ideal. In the meantime I got 3 more videos from other users and 3-5 seconds seems to be the average. Optimizing the Jpg is not going to speed it up unfortunately, the delay is based on the photo slide show application to kick in. You could test it and make a ridiculously large 1080p jpg file and it would not make a significant difference. It’s just how WD decided to trigger the backdrops, frankly it is a lame idea to begin with… but hey there been times where you couldn’t do this at all so we are moving into the right direction and can have the newest firmware at the same time.

ritaben wrote:

Hi, DeVicious, thought you my like to see how this wonderful theme looks on the SMP (don’t know why camera icon is showing in middle of screenshot).

Once again thaks

your image isn’t approved yet :dizzy_face:

I can’t see your upload right now but I am happy it works for you and thanx for taking the time to post a screenshot :slight_smile:

Good News,

I got rid off more code that I don’t need and and it stops  the reload of the mirror effect when selected, it works because my thumbnails stay the same size when selected so i was able to get rid of this

   
    <wrapper y=“458” w=“134” h=“201” align=“hcenter” scale_type=“” scale=“100” selected_scale=“100”>
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
   

I will upload a new version tonight or tomorrow :smiley:

Hi Dev

I just sent you a PM.

Could you please have a read and let me know what you think

Thanks mate

Hi,

I’m french, so sorry for my bad english, i will try to write the most correctly i can!

I have a WD TV Live “SMP” since 1 month. I put your theme “Black Mamba” and i use ThumbGen to generate xml and jpg like your procedure.

This theme is beautifull (reflection is very great) and work very weell, i have just some littles problems:

Video:

  • The Tv show are displayed by the episode’s name, not by #   → That was ok, i read that i have to disable the library.  

  • The background which displayed the movie info in the gallery view take some time to appear, and it displayed alternatively the movie info and the movie picture (slide show) → I read that it’s normal for the time to display, but i don’t understand why i have a slide show between the movie info and the movie picture

Music:

  • For every album i have a folder with the mp3 and a %folder_name%.jpg, but the picture is not displayed on the music gallery. → I don’t found anything about that. I have to put each picture on the mp3 tag? Or naming the jpg differently?

I know that you haven’t got a SMP, and your theme is for “HUB”, but it was very beautifull and i like to use it on my “SMP” :slight_smile:

Thanks you 

Louis

Hi Dou,

I also have the SMP.

Im having similar issues with the movie info not displaying unless i select options and go into view info. I only get backdrop slide show.  

If i finfd out how to sort that out i’ll let you know.

Dev probably wont be able to answer due to not having an SMP as you mentioned.

If you work it out can you let me know too please

doudidou wrote:

Hi,

 

I’m french, so sorry for my bad english, i will try to write the most correctly i can!

I understand your english just fine :smiley:

This theme is beautifull (reflection is very great) and work very weell, i have just some littles problems:

 

Video:

  • The Tv show are displayed by the episode’s name, not by #   → That was ok, i read that i have to disable the library.  
  • The background which displayed the movie info in the gallery view take some time to appear, and it displayed alternatively the movie info and the movie picture (slide show) → I read that it’s normal for the time to display, but i don’t understand why i have a slide show between the movie info and the movie picture

 

That’s because Western Digital made the firmware this way, there is nothing anyone can do without loosing 60%-70% of the backdrop quality (i tried and others did too) Western Digital decided to display the backdrops (movie sheets) through the photo gallery slide show function. C´est la vie :smileyvery-happy:

 Music:

  • For every album i have a folder with the mp3 and a %folder_name%.jpg, but the picture is not displayed on the music gallery. → I don’t found anything about that. I have to put each picture on the mp3 tag? Or naming the jpg differently?

 

Thanks you 

Louis

You need a folder.jpg for each folder that doesn’t show a cover not a foldername,jpg

This works in network share or on your local LiveHub/SMP Hard Drive or external hard drives connected to your device.

It doesn’t work with windows media share.

I am not sure how your mp3 files are tagged, I am actually an “Apple **bleep**” and i tagged all my files in iTunes.

Basically what happens if you have tagged your mp3 files with covers already is that it shows a cover for the album but no for the artist (to level folder). Fellow board contributor Drizzt09 has found THIS PROGRAM which is absolutely amazing, it let’s you do a couple of things but if all you need is a folder.jpg you can extract them from the mp3 files.

You can also use it to overwrite your ID3 tags or to update your covers to 500x500 versions.

If you already have the folder files just rename them and you’re good to go :smiley:

  • The background which displayed the movie info in the gallery view take some time to appear, and it displayed alternatively the movie info and the movie picture (slide show)

 The movie info is hardcoded in the movie sheets for that matter you can only use my sheets or those that have the info embedded in the jpg file. However in the next update (tonight/tomorrow morning) I have added the movie title (or filename if no xml file generated) for those who have no cover art or movie sheets and for those who are compulsive about the speed or the lack of reading material during the seconds the backdrop loading sequence :heart:

as you can see it will display the title (or filename) in the small dark box in the middle for each selected cover.